52.4% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.5%
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 52.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bexley North · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bexley North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of residents in Bexley North use a language other than English at home, a rate among the highest for similar areas. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than both New South Wales and the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common second language here, spoken by 16.0% of people, followed by Cantonese, Arabic and Mandarin. This diversity is reflected in the 9.8% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
9.8% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bexley North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10334/bexley-north/topic/language